BRITAIN: Union Fever

Once again an epidemic of strikes by rapacious unions enfeebled Britain.
A two-week-old walkout by 75,000 truck drivers severely impeded
shipments of food, medicine, raw materials and other essential
commodities, forcing layoffs of as many as 150,000 workers from idle
factories and producing shortages of such staples as sugar, salt, flour
and butter. Massive traffic jams clogged the highways as commuters
switched to cars in the face of walkouts by locomotive engineers. Worse
was to come, as 1.5 million public service workers threatened a 24-hour
walkout this...